Improved washing-machine



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CHARLES E. WALKER, or BENEoRDfS STORE Posr OFFICE-PENN;

SYLVANIA.

Lette/rs Patent No. 93,255, dated August 3, 1869.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE;

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and makingl part of thesanne.

To all whom tt may concern.-

Beit known that 1,-CHARLES F. WALKER,-of Beu- 'ords Store Post Oice, inthe county of Somerset, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented newanduseful Improvements on a certain Washing-Machine, for which LettersPatent weregranted` to me, bearing date the 5th day of March, 1867, No.62,708; and I do hereby declare that J(he following is a full, clear,and exact description of the construction and operation of the same,reference being had to the accompanying' drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in which-'- Figure l is a perspective view of mybox-machine as improved.

Figure 2, the same applied or used in a common washing-tub. i

Figure 3, thedashers, Ste., detached or shown sepa rately, showing thebevel-edged piecesL and theen'tire cross-strips or uniting-link G.

The object of this invention is to produce a cheap, Simple, andeasily-adjusted and regulated washer, to which end certain details ofconstruction are employed, which will be more fully describedhereinafter.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, Iwill' proceed to describe the same as introduced and modified. y

B l represent two dashers, which may be made semicircular in form to fitan ordinary tub, or of any desired shape. They are connected by the linkG, in such manner that each one is allowed a vertical motionindependently ofthe other.

H H are vertical rods rigidly attached to the crossbars L L on thedasher, which rods are attached, at

their upper ends, to the lever G. y

K is 'a Vtransverse bar or strip, which Ais firmly at.-

taehed to the top of the tub or receptacle 'containing` the mechanism. y

To the centre of the bar K is suitably attached the rope E, which passesthrough an orifice in the lever C,

and is attached to a handle, F, above the same.

It will be seen that the rope E holds the lever C in position, and .thatthe latter, when raised and lowered,

imparts vertical motion alternately to each dasher.

The arrangement is regulated for diierent quantities vof vfabric bytwisting or untwisting the rope E, which What I do claim, and-desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

In a washing-machine ot the described construction, the handle F, r'opeE, and bar K, in combination with` the lever C and its attachments, asand for the pur- C. F. WALKER.

' pose set forth.

Witnesses:

- WM. B. WiLEY,

J AcoB STAUFEER.

